It's all fun and games until someone steps on a sea urchin . . .

Let me begin by saying that Dave cashed in quite a bit when he decided to get married and subsequently have kids. Before we started our somewhat im-movable feast, he went deep sea diving, climbed mountains, ran marathons, and more of the same. He lived large and needed very little sleep.  Since kids, his idea of a good time is sleeping through the night and mowing the lawn without a kid in tow. You all know what I'm talking about.

So as his loving wife, I was really excited for Dave's friend Jesse (equally a stranger to fun lately) to come for a visit. This was going to be their chance to remember what it's like to run care-free and kid-free (well, kid- free at least 50% of the time. I mean, I'm only human).

And they did have fun, I mean, I think. Then two days before Jesse caught a plane home, they decided to roam around some of the beaches south of Sydney. Four hours later they came home, both sunburn, Dave limping, and a wedding ring at the bottom of the sea. The details are a little foggy ( I may not have been listening too well) and Dave is more than welcome to fill 'em in (or even respond with a rebuttal). But I believe there was a cliff, some kids diving off it, and some less than sound reasoning our boys' part.

The picture above is of Dave's foot before I, a doctor, and then a surgeon all took a go at the quills. He's doing fine now and on heavy antibiotics. Apparently, the surgeon was a bit skeptical about my using an earring, cutical cutter, and tweezers as tools. Doctors can be so hoity-toity.

A VERY late happy new year!

Christmas morn'

Hope everyone had a great holiday! We played it very low key--presents, yummy food, black and white movies . . . The best, tho, was that Ruby is finally old enough (you know, those long two years we've waited) to get what some of it is all about. And she definitley loved the presents.

Sidenote: After two years of owning our camera, we just learned it can record video. Yeah, we're really techy :) So we bring to you some of our Christams morning. It could have been much longer, but once Dave and I edited out our weird facial expressions and dumb comments, this is all that's left :)